Housing & Infrastructure, India

Bintix is an innovative Waste-Tech start-up that traces plastic waste & harnesses insights from it, to ensure economically and environmentally sustainable solutions. They use technology solutions – combining QR & Bar Codes with AI/ML - to collect, tag & analyze waste of households.

The company's circular economy contributions involve addressing key challenges in plastic waste management through waste recovery, sorting, and traceability. They promote waste segregation at the source, collect data on waste collection, and manage low-value plastics appropriately.

Their market includes households, FMCG companies, and businesses in waste management.

Social impact

• Providing employment to over 115 people including informal waste collectors, out of whom about 60% are women (2023)
• Promoting behavioral change at household, community and city level on waste-segregation at source

Environmental impact

• Averting 1,750 MT+ of dry waste reaching the landfill, of which around 750 MT are plastics (2023)
• Averting 6,000+ MT CO2 from its operations getting released into the environment (2023)

Economic impact

• Reducing the cost of treatment and transportation of waste by encouraging waste segregation at source
• Generating jobs in the circular economy in 7 cities in India, generating 135+ jobs (2023)